Where: New Zealand (35.5° S, 173.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 175.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waititi Formation (Otaua Group), Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, massive mudstone and lithified, massive, muddy sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Hiller; reposited in the CM

• Almost all material is in Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (prefixed CM); a few specimens are in Auckland University Geology Department (prefixed AU).

Primary reference: N. Hiller. 2011. Micromorphic brachiopods from the Early Miocene (Otaian) of Northland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(1):75-87 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152323: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 17.11.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

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